Powertrading much?

[ryoken]

Hehe, I feel your pain, but it is kind of expected, isn't it? I mean, traders REALLY don't want to get pirated. IRL they'd do what they could to escape, so here, where there are far fewer and less drastic consequences, they will try, too. As a sometime pirate, I say pound him/her to within an inch of his/her life, and then ask politely for your donation again. If this doesn't work, start killing them all untill they give the 1 mill.

Of course, something to realise is that just because there is a trasnport with a full load that doesn't mean there is a full bank account behind it. The trader side of me is screaming, "If you want me to stop and pay the 1mill when I have it, then don't kill me when I don't have it." Nothing is worse than sinking everything you have into the shiny new ship and it's cargo and then being paupered by the resulting pirate attack.

Maybe demand cargo from time to time, or impossible things, like the keys to thier personal yacht. Traders are more apt to rp with pirates if it isn't, "Give me your millions or dai!" Yeah, you don't get anything in the end, but you aren't really pirating for credits, are you? Make a pirate trader to outfit your pirate and then go hog wild with it. Steal some poor traders wife, ravish his daughter. Make him watch as you burn thirty lots of his cargo, make him burn the cargo. These things can all be done without making the other player lose his hard earned credits and will result in the good rp you want.

See this is what i meant by both side's go bad time to time.
I have stopped and chatted with a pirate in my ALG TAGGED/ID'd and it's coming ALG Heavy mover. and he pitated me 1 cred.We both had fun RP and moved on. 10 minute's later i got a load of waste,it cost me 4700 creds to buy at 1 cred a ton. 1 TL away from where i buy it,a pirate shoot's me,and demande's the old fateful "3mil or die". When i try to RP that this cargo is worthless,and i make no money doing so,he kill's me.
All in all Pirate's RP just as good,or bad as trader's. Go's both way's.

Interesting point. The real issue I guess is that people trade for money, only tagged traders do it for RP reasons. That's all. So if pirate care about RP he should avoid to annoy not-tagged traders, or not-tagged miners.

No this is wrong. I have both Tagged,and non Tagged trader's.They all want to make money,and all want to RP. It is the person,not the ship that is good or bad for RP.

I run into a lot of people like that who just plain refuse to cooperate in the roleplaying a pirate. One time, I hail this guy on scanners, friendly hail just saying hi, his response. "Docking Bye Bye"

Well you cannot blame him. I stopped ,and chatted with a pirate,and when he got close just said "3 mil or die" then tried to kill me. Close to base so docked and logged off pissed off about the lack of RP.


Let's face it people. You got power trader's It is a fact.
ALSO. You have power pirate's,who want to just get rich quick without trading, or blow peep's up.

I find some just discusting. "drop all your ore or die" is 1 when a couple pirate train's are there with the pirate's. Just ruining it for other's while they soak up the cash,and land on bases not permitted to land on.

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